OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7747

felon

/ˈfɛlən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
criminal • delincuente • felón
A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.
I doe defie thy coniurations: / And doe attach thee as a fellon heere.
Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
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